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Fayetteville, Texas
Summary
Fayetteville is a city in Fayette County, Texas. The population was 246 at the 2020 census.
The town is located in an area that was originally granted to Alex Thompson and George Cumberland. Fayetteville's first immigrant settlers were the families headed by John Crier, James Cummins, and James J. Ross, three of the Old Three Hundred. The settlement began at the location of a stagecoach stop on an old road between San Felipe and Bastrop.
Even though Fayette County was named after General Lafayette, the Revolutionary War hero, the community was named in 1844 after Fayetteville, North Carolina, for a prominent citizen of the time, who had surveyed the community, named its streets, and donated lots for the Fayetteville Academy and the town's multidenominational Union Church.
Fayetteville was incorporated in 1882.
The town made national news during World War I. As reprinted by Stars and Stripes in its March 15, 1918 issue, the town's mayor, W. C. Langlotz, and ten of the town's citizens were charged with espionage. They were arrested following the display of the flag of the German Empire over the entryway of the Germania club in Fayetteville. The group pleaded "not guilty": the mayor said the flag had been displayed by mistake.
The majority of the area within the town boundaries was designated the Fayetteville Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 2008.
Fayetteville is located in eastern Fayette County at (29.904922, –96.675119). Texas State Highway 159 passes through the center of town, leading northeast to Industry and northwest, then southwest a total of to La Grange, the county seat. Houston is to the east via secondary highways and Interstate 10, while Austin is to the northwest via highways 159 and 71.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , none of which is covered with water. Lake Fayette, a reservoir constructed for power generation, is west of town.
As of the census of 2000, there were 261 people, 120 households, and 71 families residing in the city.
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